Book Review | Civil War-Era Jews, as Divided as the Nation
For U.S. Jews today, their forebears’ division and equivocation in the face of slavery’s evils can only be a cause for sober reflection.
Book Review | Three Windows on a War in Progress
There is no pleasure in accompanying Sharabi through his ordeal and his personal losses, but we can get some pleasure from the vivid description of his liberation day.
Book Review | ‘Happier Far: Essays’
Carlin Romano reviews poet Diane Mehta’s psychological self-examination of how her very different parents impacted her.
Book Review | ‘Happy New Years’
An Israeli-born woman writes one letter per year from America during Rosh Hashanah to a group of women who were her classmates in Israel.
Book Review | The Podolian Nights
If Nachman is at all classifiable, he is an unwitting modernist, his enigmatic tales less historical relics than astonishingly prescient works.
Book Review | Tracing the Oldest Hatred Here at Home
What does it say about antisemitism in America that its most violent outrage is not widely remembered, caused no deaths and had some consequences that were arguably positive?
Review | 10 Things Every Jew Should Know Before They Go To College
Emily Schrader and Blake Flayton explain the basics of Israel and Judaism to students, but should the target audience be exclusively Jewish?
Book Review | The Forgotten Bond Between Teddy and the Tribe
In many ways Theodore Roosevelt was limited by the ideas of his times.
Book Review | A Golden Age Seen Through Its Icons
Sip it slowly, and live or relive this golden age—an era giddy with hope, a time of light.
Book Review | Everything Matters: A Surprising Take on Spirituality, Ethics and Daily Life
I came away feeling that this book ought to be read by all kinds of Jews.
Book Review | Israel Doesn’t Fit Your Frameworks
Is it possible to be evenhanded in discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or the Israeli-Hamas war?
Book Review | It’s All Happened Here
“Red Scare” doesn’t describe a country devoted to free speech and willing to fight for the right of others to express dissenting opinions.